SKINIQUE · SKIN LAB

What affects your skin

Three steps: choose an age and a topic, then see why it happens and what you can change.

1 · Age and points on the face

Choose your age The text below changes with your choice

Choose an area of the face The text below changes with your choice

The points on the photo and the buttons below show where the chosen topic appears: a solid ring means most often, a dashed ring means it can appear too. The places change with age.

2 · What concerns you

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Worth doing

Better to avoid

3 · Why it happens and what you can change

What happens in the skin

You can change itPartlyCannot be changed

Finland: the figures

What you can do yourself

What to look for in ingredients

The top layer of the skin renews in about 4 weeks when we are young, and more slowly with age. That is why home care is judged after 4–8 weeks at the earliest, and spots and wrinkles after 3 months.

This is a guide, not a diagnosis.

4 · The sun and your skin type

Choose your skin type The text below changes with your choice

Which option is closest to your skin without a tan (Fitzpatrick phototype)?

Two kinds of rays

UVBShort rays. They cause redness and sunburn. Strongest at midday in summer. Window glass blocks almost all of them.

UVALong rays. They go deeper, break down collagen and cause spots. Present all year round and pass through clouds and glass.

What to chooseA product marked “broad spectrum” or with UVA in a circle: it protects against both kinds.

When SPF is a must in Finland

Orange marks the months when the UV index in southern Finland rises to 3 or higher (FMI data). In spring the face can also burn on snow, especially in the fells and in Lapland: snow reflects the rays.

5 · Your habits

Tick your habits

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6 · What can help

A treatment does not replace home care and sun protection. Results are individual; we plan the course together at a consultation.

Your summary

Put together from your answers above. It is a guide, not a diagnosis: at a consultation our specialist will look at your skin and refine the plan.

Discuss at a consultation

What we do not know yet

What share of visible ageing comes from the sun (there is no primary study with a figure).
How much smoking, alcohol and lack of sleep add to wrinkles.
The effect of treatments on wrinkles in randomised trials.
Causes of dark circles other than heredity.

This is not a medical diagnosis. It is a guide to the questions you chose. For a personal plan, please talk to a Skinique specialist.